grizwako's questions

I want one window to loose mouse focus (its a game, and alt-tab doesnt work as it should).

There is this interesting commit that i reached with searching and reading, but dont know how to use DeaGrb feature.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~daniels/xserver/commit/?h=input-next&id=ff4efa75fba16c099295b0cc6a5b9e44386b8427

Edit1: There are some applications(games mostly) which exclusively grab mouse focus, and if you press alt-tab, your mouse focus wont switch to another window, I want to force such applications to release all focus they have, i think that AllowDeactivateGrabs config var in X server should have similar effect, but it is deprecated...

Edit2: @poolie, no it is not duplicate question, it is releated, but definetely not duplicate

I am playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and when I play it in windowed mode, I can't change focus from the game to something else (Alt+Tab doesn't work).

How can i make programs on second monitor still visible while playing game (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory)?

I know that i can use windowed mode, but playing in windowed kinda feels different, like game has a lot of tiny video lags.

EDIT1: I am running gnome on latest ubuntu, and while one monitor has game on it and other is completely black (my notifications are set up so they pop up on second monitor) i can see notifications (libnotify and skype).

I often had trouble with Ctrl and Shift modifiers while playing games (maybe this is gnome specific). For example if I press and hold Ctrl to crouch and I press 3 to select some gun while crouching I get in game menu (which is triggered by Esc).

Is it possible to somehow setup Ubuntu One to get notifications when something is updated.

Example:

Synced:

/home/user/workspace/xxx.py  
/home/user/workspace/ggg.py  
/home/user/workspace/UUU.py  

Synced notes:

mynote1

Synced:

Nothing new so nothing synced.

Synced notes: Nothing new so nothing synced.

I restarted as suggested after installing indicator, but still can't see it in applet list.

How can I control the computer's fan speed?

On Windows there is a wonderful program called SpeedFan.

I installed wolf:et, and i cant get sound to work. Everything that i have installed is in default paths, i had 10.4 and then upgraded to 10.10 via software update gui. I had sound working in 10.04 with method under 2.

I have tried following

1. killall esd; et; esd

   with that i get

   ------- sound initialization -------
/dev/adsp: No such file or directory
Could not open /dev/adsp
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2. sudo -i
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
exit

   with that i get

   bash: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss: No such file or directory
   and indeed i do not have that, i have only sub0 and sub1 in pcm0p

3. I have tried running et with et-sdl-sound script, but with that i get this output in console
   http://pastebin.com/J7gRU1uh
   I have probably messed up sdl libraries, could not get sound to work, so downloaded new from debian package site and installed them.

4. Tried setting SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse" in et-sdl-sound, looks like i am getting same error as in method 3.

5. pasuspender -- et +set s_alsa_pcm plughw:0

   gives me

   ------- sound initialization -------
/dev/adsp: No such file or directory
Could not open /dev/adsp
_------------------------------------


Misc: @Oli: i do not know if i am running pulse or esd, how can i check that?